Monday, January 11, 2010

Pankaj Shah Greendimes: A Forest that protects the environment from getting Spamitised

 It has been a more than decade since when we started using the email more intensively as the source for communication. The day to day world becoming more digitised, emails are becoming authentic idetntity and communication symbol of the individual The only one that still stops it from such is the Spam. These mails not only cause individual irrtations butalso they cause monetary loss to the individual. I was about to loose about 1000$ a eyear ago when I was just going to draft this amount to an unknown individual who asked me to send this so that he will be processing an amount of 1 million dollars that I won. In reality I never participated in such activity. I was stopped by one of my friend who said he too recieved the mail. I really hate such spam mails and was loking a way to resolve such issue. I can filter about 15 of such mails. But day by day my inbox gets flooded with thousand s of such mail.


Any ways I got a solution, thanks to Pankaj Shah who is running an organisation that really works out solution for the spam mails. He is the founder of GreenDimes, a small business with big plans to stop junk mail while aiding the environment.GreenDimes is one of several companies nationwide begun in recent years to organize information about a customer’s unsolicited credit card offers and money mailers, or no longer desired catalogs, and then perform the legwork to halt the flow.The company pledges to plant one tree a month for every person who registers. According to the WildWest Institute, an estimated 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce 4.5 million tons of junk mail, with 44 percent of that thrown away unopened. GreenDimes keeps a crawl running on its home page, <www.greendimes.com showing that more than 310,590 trees have been preserved, more than 4 million gallons of water saved and nearly 1.6 million pounds of junk mail stopped by its efforts.

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